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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Asymmetric Processor Cores

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Asymmetric Processor Cores
Most Intel processors use one of two cores, the main-line core and the Atom core. Desktop processors might use the newer Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake micro-architecture cores, while the Xeon SP lines uses the previous generation Skylake micro-architecture. All of these are part of the main core line. The Atom core is used in Xeon Phi, Atom and some Pentium or Celeron processors. In simple terms, the main-line is a big core and the Atom is a small core. The obvious question is which is better: very many...(read more)

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